Just out; hat tip to the report’s chair, Dan Reed. It’s here. Extremely well-written and cogent. Self-recommending.
My worry, that the old vision of NSF HPC for the 97% of us (in the science community) is gone. Jim Kurose distilled the mission when he led CISE, and it was easy for me to understand. When I was on the Sandia CS ERB, that was also how I understood the NSF part.
I get that AI has changed everything. I also get that in the current crisis, NSF has been left with the labor pipeline as its main metier.
But that’s now. What’s coming down the pike in January, and beyond, may be very different.
